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Re: Somebody Agrees with Hrant about Black-Letter
My understanding, from conversation with Nadine, is that eye-tracking studies of Chinese readers reveal that saccades are short and frequent, and that saccade length correlates to semantic load, not …4 -
Re: CSS Working Group agrees to add a whole lotta Math
I can appreciate that this is big news, but as someone who doesn't know a lot of math, I'd be interested in examples of what some of these functions can do, specifically in how they relate to typogra…1 -
Re: [otvar] Computing width for text in variable webfonts
I don't think they do, because as I've asked numerous times: What is being measured? It's not as if per mille of em transparent width adjustments are increasing the width of each glyph by the same pe…1 -
Re: [otvar] Computing width for text in variable webfonts
I don't see how the compression or expansion value of a proportionally spaced type with a wdth axis can ever be anything other than an approximation, even presuming the font developer has tried to ge…3 -
Re: Printer recommendations for proofing?
Historically, the importance of true PS printers has been in proofing for PS-based professional print media. Type designers making fonts for the professional graphic design market wanted to know how …2
